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High quality wired headphones cost $500+, too.

> I have stopped using Twitter.

> I just occasionally [use Twitter] to see if . . .

Hm.

This elides the most important thing to understand about interfaces, which is that they should usually be defined by the code that consumes them, rather than by the code that provides things that implement them.

Lol.

He literally said those exact words on live television.

I'm confused as to your intent here. The Hunter Biden laptop story was one of those QAnon conspiracy theories.

Trump is inarguably fascist, just incompetently so. Nobody really disputes this.

> The only explanation they can come up with is voter fraud which has not been found to be a widescale problem by nearly every group that has looked into it.

Not "nearly" every group. Every group. Election fraud is effectively nonexistent.

You shit on Go with almost every post you make. Give it a fucking rest.

> because the news media you follow isn't covering the content of the story.

That's not surprising, because it's manufactured and bogus.

They're common carriers, a different set of rules apply.

I personally have no problem with platforms choosing to squelch lies. If they over-step their authority then the market will correct them, right?

> because they are used as a public platform . . . they are not expected to moderate anything

Says who?

> because they are biased in their censorship

Yes, and reality has a liberal bias, eh?

It's a lovely language perfectly suited to building network-oriented services in market-driven organizations.

It's basically the only language in meaningful use that optimizes for the right things in this context: productivity at the team scale (rather than the individual scale) and making things easier for code readers (rather than code authors).

I mean, obviously you're wrong.

If you are a trans person and need to use the bathroom in a conservative state, then you are forced to care about politics. If you are a black person who is stopped by the police and rightfully fear for your life, then you are forced to care about politics.

The fact that you are able to not care about these things is a privilege you enjoy. And not caring about them is a political decision that you've made.

Insofar as it represents a fundamental and existential inequality in society, it certainly is.

By definition, if you're able to ignore politics, you are not part of the demographic that I'm describing.

Not having the time to concern yourself with politics isn't a position of neutrality or agnosticism. You can only adopt that position if the status quo of a society provides you sufficient protection, stability, prosperity, etc. to allow you to tune it out. If those conditions aren't true, it's not possible to "not concern yourself with politics" in a Maslow's hierarchy sense. And so doing so is unavoidably a tacit defense of the status quo.

In this case: basic and functional equality of the members of a society. Like pornography, this is hard to define precisely, but I know when the violations are egregious enough, and the functional equality of black Americans through in the eyes of the police right now is certainly egregious enough.

It is.

Yes: everyone in a society necessarily has political responsibility.

This is entirely appropriate. Why do you think it isn't?

Broadly, it's incorrect to claim the issues at hand here are irrelevant to the business of the (or any) company.

> Social justice movements like “black lives matter” are not relevant to the mission of companies like Coinbase

That's the whole issue, and you're just affirming the consequent by saying this. Structural equality is unavoidably the concern of every person and group in a society.

> Being apolitical at work is not active support for the status quo.

It certainly can be.

I have no idea what you think this conversation is about.

But we're not talking about McDonalds workers? We're talking about Coinbase.